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BIOENERGY FOR EUROPE: WHICH ONES FIT BEST?

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164 7 Annex<br />

7.2.7 ETBE from sugar beet versus fossil MTBE for transportation:<br />

relative impact differences between biofuels and fossil fuels<br />

200%<br />

100%<br />

0%<br />

-100%<br />

Use of fossil fuels<br />

Greenhouse effect<br />

How to interpret the diagram<br />

Ozone Depletion by N2O<br />

Acidification<br />

Eutrophication<br />

Summer smog<br />

Human toxicity<br />

France<br />

Germany<br />

Netherlands<br />

Europe<br />

Environmental advantages and disadvantages of ETBE compared to MTBE for each country involved<br />

as well as for Europe are shown by relative differences between the biofuels and the fossil fuel: (biofuel<br />

– fossil fuel) / fossil fuel. The zero line indicates the level for fossil fuels. Therefore negative values<br />

indicate advantages for ETBE and positive ones represent advantages for MTBE. For example, assuming<br />

the production and combustion of fossil fuel causes an emission of 1 kg of N2O (Ozone depletion),<br />

then a value of -100 % means no net N2O emissions in the case of the biofuel, 0 % means 1 kg N2O<br />

(i.e. the same as the fossil fuel), 100 % means 2 kg N2O and so on.<br />

Remarks and conclusions<br />

For the categories use of fossil fuels and greenhouse effect all country results are very close. Especially<br />

regarding eutrophication there are much greater differences. For eutrophication Germany stands out<br />

with an exceptionally high impact by using the defaults from the data collection guideline for nitrate<br />

emissions to water; for the Netherlands a more complex model was used which gave higher nitrate<br />

emissions from fallow than from the crop. Most of the other differences are rather small and to be regarded<br />

as less significant.

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